Board members reviewed a proposal for 2025 landfill monitoring services and associated site maintenance and agreed to place warrant items on the June 2025 town meeting warrant asking the town to pay annual monitoring fees and mowing costs from free cash.
The board recorded the monitoring laboratory's 2025 annual testing fee as $5,865 in the proposal presented at the meeting and mentioned a lawn-mowing fee—discussion included a $265 mowing figure in one passage and another reference that appeared to list $5,065 for mowing; the board directed staff to treat the numeric amounts as proposals that will be clarified before the warrant is finalized. Judy proposed placing both the annual testing and mowing on the warrant for payment from town free cash; members voted to allow Judy to prepare and file the warrant article and to speak for it at Town Meeting.
The board also discussed using funds in the Board of Health recycling account for limited landfill-related expenses, such as flushing or repairing one monitoring well point identified by the contractor, and for underwriting periodic metal-recycling events or a construction-dumpster drop-off to clear town-collected items. Members agreed that specific expenditures from the recycling account would require firm cost estimates and a subsequent board action before any money is spent.
No specific repair contracts or recycling expenditures were approved at the meeting; the board asked staff to obtain cost estimates and to identify which monitoring well needs flushing or replacement so the board can consider budget actions after receiving that information.